Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

"A number of the papers raise fascinating issues which contemporary philosophers of action may well benefit from engaging with."- Lucy Campbell, University of Warwick, and Alexander Greenberg, University of Southampton, Metapsychology Online Reviews

• Preface Introduction 1. Agents, objects, and their powers in Suarez and Hobbes 2. Human action and virtue in Descartes and Spinoza 3. Action, knowledge and embodiment in Berkeley and Locke 4. Sympathetic action in the seventeenth century: human and natural 5. Hume’s better argument for motivational scepticism 6. Kant and Hegel on purposive action 7. Action, interaction and inaction: post-Kantian accounts of thinking, willing, and doing in Fichte and Schopenhauer 8. Nietzsche’s account of self-conscious agency 9. Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the century 10. The touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events 11. Remarks on the "thickness" of action description: with Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Anscombe

Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

"A number of the papers raise fascinating issues which contemporary philosophers of action may well benefit from engaging with."- Lucy Campbell, University of Warwick, and Alexander Greenberg, University of Southampton, Metapsychology Online Reviews

• Preface Introduction 1. Agents, objects, and their powers in Suarez and Hobbes 2. Human action and virtue in Descartes and Spinoza 3. Action, knowledge and embodiment in Berkeley and Locke 4. Sympathetic action in the seventeenth century: human and natural 5. Hume’s better argument for motivational scepticism 6. Kant and Hegel on purposive action 7. Action, interaction and inaction: post-Kantian accounts of thinking, willing, and doing in Fichte and Schopenhauer 8. Nietzsche’s account of self-conscious agency 9. Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the century 10. The touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events 11. Remarks on the "thickness" of action description: with Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Anscombe

Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

"A number of the papers raise fascinating issues which contemporary philosophers of action may well benefit from engaging with."- Lucy Campbell, University of Warwick, and Alexander Greenberg, University of Southampton, Metapsychology Online Reviews

• Preface Introduction 1. Agents, objects, and their powers in Suarez and Hobbes 2. Human action and virtue in Descartes and Spinoza 3. Action, knowledge and embodiment in Berkeley and Locke 4. Sympathetic action in the seventeenth century: human and natural 5. Hume’s better argument for motivational scepticism 6. Kant and Hegel on purposive action 7. Action, interaction and inaction: post-Kantian accounts of thinking, willing, and doing in Fichte and Schopenhauer 8. Nietzsche’s account of self-conscious agency 9. Before ethics: scientific accounts of action at the turn of the century 10. The touch of King Midas: Collingwood on why actions are not events 11. Remarks on the "thickness" of action description: with Wittgenstein, Ryle, and Anscombe